Tuesday, April 19, 2011

[Your favorite hideous city/woman hybrid "Ann Apolis" has sent me the following guest review for this worthless shit comic, which isn't so much a review as it is a link/image, but really, it doesn't deserve any more complex treatment. -Ed.]

If Ann Apolis is a doctor, I'm glad I don't live in the UK. If I asked for some cosmetic surgery Ann might decide that I can't be trusted with my own sense of aesthetics and cut me up "the right way" while I'm under.

...And now I've been reading through the Subnormality archives (only made it through about five of them since my last post, ha ha), and it can be pretty interesting. As they say, it's not the destination that's important, but the journey. A punchline matters less when the comic itself is just interesting to read.

@Anon909: Carl fancied himself a "well-rounded" individual before he started/abandoned his all-purpose site, and so reviewed webcomics/books on this site in order to be a "reviewer" and get free copies reserved for "reviewers".

"Randall takes a break from milk fantasies and stalking Megan blah blah unless it's because he thinks she plays Tetris and desperately wants to get her attention."..."Obviously Randall wants to pander to Tetris fans, but he's never even played the game himself, because otherwise he'd know pieces in that shape don't exist in the real game. Oh Randall, you clueless fuck."...Etc. QEDBBQ. Your work here is done.

Ah, I feel so... relieved. No more Xkcd. This is my last one folks. I encourage you all to pick your own milestone comic and leave as fast as you can. #900 is coming up real soon, or #1000 for you sadists. All that's required to make this complete is the corresponding review.

Thank you all so much for giving me the support to go on hating something loved by many. I couldn't have done it without you.

the subnormality font is probably the worst he could have chosen. it's plain ugly and even worse in a wall of text. and the site design

i'm pretty sure the author is trolling with his respone to criticism. basically if you don't like his mostly pointless and excessive use of words, you're either a baby or an illiterate who must also not like books.

The only real difference between subnormality and xkcd is that randall munroe writes enormous walls of text full of nerd references so his fans will suck him off, and winston rowntree writes enormous walls of text full of pretentious declarations so he can suck himself off.

oh, and comic 888: Randall was flipping through his archives while masturbating (normal tuesday night, natch) and stumbled across the actually mildly amusing comic called "hell" where the tetris game bottom was curved so you couldn't stack anything. And he figured if that one fetched plenty of recognition chuckles, surely a complementary "heaven" one would as well!

Hey, at least it ain't poster bait (which is what we usually get whenever he goes flipping through his archives for 'inspiration')

xkcd forumites consider 724 'hell' to be a 'classic' that 'brings back memories' , kill me, kill me nowalso:'Part of me wants to believe that Randall came up with this and the Hell comic at the same time, but held off on the Heaven comic until comic #888 due to the 'lucky' properties of the number 8 in Chinese culture...'(sure thing brah

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Welcome. This is a website called XKCD SUCKS which is about the webcomic xkcd and why we think it sucks. My name is Carl and I used to write about it all the time, then I stopped because I went insane, and now other people write about it all the time. I forget their names. The posts still seem to be coming regularly, but many of the structural elements - like all the stuff in this lefthand pane - are a bit outdated. What can I say? Insane, etc.

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